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Show 70 TIU: LIDERTY DELL. Yet a stronger trust and love Strive towards the throne above; Yearning hearts with deep desire, To the unsoon God aspire. "We, the deathless and the strong, Sound his name in deathless song; Yet within each glowing brcnst Swells a rapture unexpressed. Come, then, brethren of tho spheres, Learn the yoke of days and years; Heaven's divinest bliss to earn, Mortals' patient labors learn ; Learn on earthly ground to raise Temples worthy of His praise." Then they huilded the foundations in silence and in awe; Light looked not on their labors, and they wrought by inner law ; THE CA1'1J..EDRAL. 71 Tho stubborn rocks grew plastic to each immortal hand, And by compasses of Heaven were the vaulted arches spanned ; But song broke forth exulting, when upper air was won, And cheerful hallelujahs proclaimed the work begun. Across the mighty pavement., alternate day and night, 1'hey flung in long perspective of shadow and of light, When eager-springing wishes tLcy trained with upward hand, And strengthened clustering Fancies with Hope's sustaining band, And Beauty burst redundant from every tapering stem, Fruit, flowers, and clinging foliage, Love's choicest diadem, |